Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

October 6th, 2009

A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry: Physics, and Medicine Francis Leroy, Ed. Marcel Dekker © 2003

September 29th, 2009

Nanoscale Phenomena: Fundamentals and Applications Horst Hahn, Anatoli Sidorenko, and Ion Tiginyanu, Eds. Springer Berlin Heidelberg © 2009 “The main intention of the editors of the book is the demonstration of the intrinsic correlation and mutual influence of three important components of nanoscience: new phenomena – nanomaterials – nanodevices. This is the organizing concept of more…

September 22nd, 2009

Basic Chemometric Techniques in Atomic Spectroscopy Jose M. Andrade-Garda, Ed. RSC © 2009 “This is the first book for atomic spectroscopists to present the basic principles of experimental designs, optimization and multivariate regression. This practical introduction uses conceptual explanations and worked examples to give readers a clear understanding of the technique. Mathematics is kept to more…

September 22nd, 2009

Basic Chemometric Techniques in Atomic Spectroscopy Jose M. Andrade-Garda, Ed. RSC © 2009 “This is the first book for atomic spectroscopists to present the basic principles of experimental designs, optimization and multivariate regression. This practical introduction uses conceptual explanations and worked examples to give readers a clear understanding of the technique. Mathematics is kept to more…

September 15th, 2009

Computational Protein-Protein Interactions Ruth Nussinov and Gideon Schreiber, Eds. CRC Press © 2009 “A description of fundamental and applied aspects of the usefulness of computations when approaching protein-protein interactions, this book incorporates different views of the same biochemical problem from sequence to structure to energetics. It covers protein-protein interaction prediction and dynamics, design, drug design more…

September 11th, 2009

The latest version of ChemBioDraw, v12, is now available for download.  All Purdue-affiliated students, staff and faculty can download their own copy of ChemBioDraw for installation via  a site license funded by the Purdue Libraries.  This structure drawing suite allows the user to draw accurate, chemically-aware structures for use in database queries, preparation of publication-quality more…

September 11th, 2009

The Chemistry Library is conducting a 30-day trial (ends Oct. 11, 2009) to two ebook collections from CRC Press and Taylor & Francis. [Currently you must be on-campus to access these resources.] MaterialsNetBASE – Contains nearly 350 ebooks.  From ceramics and textiles to bioscience and pharmacology, this dynamic online library of handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias,and treatises more…

September 10th, 2009

Green Chemistry Metrics: Measuring and Monitoring Sustainable Processes A. Lapkin & D.J.C. Constable, Eds. Wiley © 2008 Quantifying the environmental impact of chemical technologies and products, and comparing alternative products and technologies in terms of their “greenness” is a challenging task. In order to characterize various aspects of a compl ex phenomenon, a number of more…

September 10th, 2009

RSC Publishing has announced the online publication of the first Advance Articles of the new journal Analytical Methods. The journal highlights new and improved methods for the practical application of analytical science. Its scope includes pharmaceutical and applied industrial analysis, agricultural and food analysis, forensic analysis and heritage science. The inaugural issue will be published more…